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David McKee dead aged 87.

OK, after careful consideration - M*A*S*H (1970) Tom Skerritt Robert Duvall Donald Sutherland Ages 88, 91, & 86. Average age 88; Round 1 average age (at time of selection) 86; Round 2 also 86. All 6 previous selections still living (and probably still working).

Dammit, I was going to go for Cabaret, York instead of Wolter though.

It’s back, less than 2 weeks! https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/inside_no_9/episodes/7/1/

Good call Biblio! and congrats to @En Passant

Ossie Ardiles recovering from heart surgery

Tony Mockus (Anthony Mockus Sr), who appeared in The Untouchables, Caddyshack II and Backdraft, as well as several US TV programmes has died aged 92 (1st April according to IMDb). A Chicago native, his last appearance was appropriately in a 2013 episode of Chicago Fire, which coincidentally I watched last night.

Appears to have been unreported here, but it was announced recently that Chris Ellison (The Bill's DI/DCI Burnside) has developed aphasia (cf Bruce Willis) following a stroke in 2020. There's video in the link from an appearance on Good Morning Britain.

John Ratzenberger, who played Cliff Clavin in 270 episodes of Cheers, is 75 today.

Twenty years ago today, exactly eight years after Kurt Cobain's death, fellow grunge singer Layne Staley of Alice in Chains died from a drug overdose, aged 34.

Jordan Mooney, a model for Vivienne Westwood and one of those credited with creating the W10 London Punk look, and who worked with Adam & The Ants, appeared in Derek Jarman films, has died, aged 66.

Gorbache V

Is this the Dot Cotton thread? I was an intermittent EE viewer, but what got me started watching regularly was Charlie Cotton's funeral clashing with Rickaaaay & Sam's wedding.

Composer Monty Norman is 94 today; he's the original composer of the James Bond theme (though John Barry's arrangement is that which we all know, and Barry claimed authorship of the tune, Its now accepted, backed up by litigation, that Norman is the composer).

TV medium Billy Roberts dead. Appeared on a couple of episodes of Most Haunted back in 2009.He was 75.

Sixteen years ago Wonderstuff drummer Martin Gilks died following a motorbike accident, aged 41.

William Gaunt is 85 today; a veteran of stage and screen, his first major role was in Victorian police drama Sergeant Cork, but he's best remembered for his starring role in ITC's The Champions, as Richard Barret, alongside Alexandra Bastedo & Stuart Damon. He appeared in the Colin Baker Doctor Who story Revelation of the Daleks as the assassin Orcini and later starred in sitcoms No Place Like Home & Next of Kin.

Desmond Morris. Picked by the tried and trusted method of sticking a pin in a list.

DDP Pick CBBC's Chelsie Whibley has died aged 29.

Patricia MacLachlan has died 31st March, aged 84.

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Another Downing Street/Met whitewash.

Its 19 years since Edwin Starr died from a heart attack, aged 61. A big hit on the Northern Soul circuit, he settled in Nottingham and is buried there. Of his 3 top-ten UK hits, this is his biggest, reaching number 3 in 1970.

Its twelve yeras since actor John Forsythe died aged 92. As well as his portrayal of Blake Carrington in Dynasty, opposite Joan Collins, he's best remembered as the eponymous Charlie from Charlie's Angels; never seen, his voice was heard at the opening of every episode.

Richard Howard reported dead, aged 92. Scavenger Hunt pick for @MariNisia